Roll Over Rock: A Study of Music in Contemporary CultureStainer & Bell, 1981 - 175 pages |
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Page 114
... contrast and repetition . This form is incompatible with sensory understanding , where accumulation and transformation can alone transport the listener into a higher plane of awareness . As Braque put it : ' The picture is completed ...
... contrast and repetition . This form is incompatible with sensory understanding , where accumulation and transformation can alone transport the listener into a higher plane of awareness . As Braque put it : ' The picture is completed ...
Page 117
... contrast to Cage's sounds of the environment , these instruments remain the personal testament of a hermitic visionary ; but the music written further displays a music theatre that , in contrast to that of Wagner , is uniquely ...
... contrast to Cage's sounds of the environment , these instruments remain the personal testament of a hermitic visionary ; but the music written further displays a music theatre that , in contrast to that of Wagner , is uniquely ...
Page 118
... contrast embodied in Western symmetry . Harrison Birtwhistle's ' Meridian ' ( 1971 ) creates a sense of theatrical space in purely musical terms , as different and distinctive groups of insturments and voices fuse and alternate in sound ...
... contrast embodied in Western symmetry . Harrison Birtwhistle's ' Meridian ' ( 1971 ) creates a sense of theatrical space in purely musical terms , as different and distinctive groups of insturments and voices fuse and alternate in sound ...
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